page_title: List of marine aquarium plant species
section_title: Brown macroalgae
hierarchical_section_title: List of marine aquarium plant species / Brown macroalgae
caption_attribution_description: Cystoseira sp. - Mediterranean Sea
context_page_description: Aquatic plants are used to give the aquarium a natural appearance, oxygenate the water, and provide habitat for fish, especially fry and for invertebrates. Some aquarium fish and invertebrates also eat live plants. Hobby aquarists use aquatic plants for aquascaping.
  Marine algae are also included in this list for convenience, despite the fact that many species are technically classified as protists, not plants.
context_section_description: Brown macroalgae are sometimes seasonally available in the aquarium trade and under suitable conditions, will grow quite prolifically. They possess the pigment Fucoxanthin which gives them their coloration ranging from yellow to dark brown. A few are desirable yet many are pests with some species being rather difficult to remove, often making their way into aquariums on live rock.
caption: False sargassum
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